How to: Hide Column Headers in the Windows Forms DataGridView Control

Sometimes you will want to display a DataGridView without column headers. In the DataGridView control, the ColumnHeadersVisible property value determines whether the column headers are displayed.

To hide the column headers

• Set the System.Windows.Forms.DataGridView.ColumnHeadersVisible property to false.

  dataGridView1.ColumnHeadersVisible = False
  

  dataGridView1.ColumnHeadersVisible = false;
  

Compiling the Code

This example requires:

• A DataGridView control named dataGridView1.

• References to the System and System.Windows.Forms assemblies.

See Also

Reference

DataGridView
System.Windows.Forms.DataGridView.ColumnHeadersVisible

Other Resources

Basic Column, Row, and Cell Features in the Windows Forms DataGridView Control